Potter Stewart
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"Potter Stewart" was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court/Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. During his tenure, he made, among other areas, major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution/Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.

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In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

Fairness is what justice really is.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . .

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.